Today, Subaru Rally Team USA (SRT USA) announced that David Higgins will be driving for the team for the 2011 season along with Dave Mirra. The 38-year-old British driver has earned multiple championships since 1997 -- two in the United States, in 2002 and 2003 SCCA ProRally Championships. Learn more about him here and ride along with him during a test run for SRT USA. (Photo credit: PR NEWSWIRE)

In four weeks, I leave with the Drive Performance WRX (DP WRX) for Florida. "Lucky dog!" you might exclaim. And I respond, "Doubly so!"

First, I'll get away from the Wisconsin winter for three days. Second, I'll be at a race track -- Daytona International Speedway (Daytona Beach, Florida) for GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge test days. The most important part of this leg of the trip is cars on track.

From Daytona Beach, I drive north to Subaru headquarters in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. That's where I'll join the 10th Annual 48HRS of Tristate group with DP WRX. The event is being held January 12-16, 2011.

The group's itinerary takes participants to the New Jersey Pine Barrens on January 12, then from Cherry Hill for a long trek west to central Indiana. After a Subaru of Indiana Automotive plant tour, the group goes back east to Ohio, then northeast to New York (Buffalo, Ithaca, and Harriman). There's a lot more, too, including a cookout and tour of TurninConcepts in Fairfield, Ohio.

48HRS of Tristate isn't just a road trip. The group raises money for the American Cancer Society, and its participants are as fired up about the donations that they raise as they are about the road trip itself.

There are a lot more details about 48HRS of Tristate. Check it out here.